St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-10

Chicago Girls Almost Tickled to Death
With the Delsarte System, You
Know.
They Continue to Exist, But Make As
Few Signs of Life As
Possible.
The Drug Known AS ''Ma1den Mod
esty'' Used to Produce Taking
Bushes.
A Historical and Military Kettledrum
1.-The Field of the Decorative
Art Society.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
CHICAGO. April Sit would be mis-
take to see us on exhibition and suppose we
were all cut after one pattern at the begin
ming. No such thing. Originally we were
possessed of as much Individuality as other
folks, but that was before PAS pork got
into the first circle. Since our pigs have
become uniformly gilded, we have caught
the notion OF adopting an extra expensive
veneer to our own uses. We never secured
anything that approached perfection until
we took up the DelSarte fad. Now, shake
us up in hat, turn us out, and you can't
tell one from tother; we are all SO highly
polished, so beautifully and similarly fin
ished. According to the Delsarte system
you know, the only pose allowable is repoSe.
We still breathe occasionally, but we are
guilty of no other vulgar sign of life. Oh!
Yes, we talk. but you would never gather
from this that we are alive Ever so many
automatons have the same capability,
Our mouths have assumed a shape best
suited to our style OF beatty, and they make
just SO many moves to the minute. We are
careful to avoid any word calculated to
spoil our faces, and if we can't do any bet
ter, we change the pronunciation to suit
our needs. Our mouths are pretty good
sized, you know. because we have cheWed
a great deal of gum lately, and You
couldn't hire any of us to say scat" No,
sir! it widenS the mouth to pronounce short
a. If necessity demanded, we would just
say ''scaught. and keep on breathing. We
laugh, now and then, but not often.
LAUGHING IS COMMON.
Children and shop girls have the habit.
We sound the scale once in while, begin
| ming softly and continuing with gradual
increase of tone, followed by gentle
decrease, and ending with sigh A great
| point. too, is to act as if You were too we'll
bred to be capable of any eXertiOn. Hard
Oh us? Well, L should-say so! The Chi
cagO girl generates an awful amount of
steam, naturally, and this slowing up with
| out letting any of it off is going to cause
| big explosion some day. You have no
ticed, probably that we look at you in
different tone of voice than the one you
| were familiar with some time ago. This
results from study of the expression. We
try them on as we would spring bonnets
| until we find one that is becoming, and
that is the one we wear until we are tired
of it. A st. Paul girl came in our midst
with positively no expression. She joined
our class. and we will send her home soon
looking like another person. You will be
deluded into believing she bought mind
| down here. The change is effected easy
enough. She practices raising and wrinkling
her lower eyelidS. as shOrt-sighted man
does, trying to distinguish distant object,
and slightly contracts the upper Orbicular
muscles (the muscles around the eyes,
Then she throws little vacancy into her
glance and droopS her head the least bit
forward. She brushes her bangs back from
her forehead, and presto! intellectually is
written all over her. The time is coming
when the leopard can change his spots ev-
cry day in the week it he wants to. We
have wrought another miracle in ourselves
We blush, now-Chicago girls blush. We
carry 1.-THE blush-around in
small vinaigrette attached to our
watch chain. 1t is some sort Of
stuff they sell at the drug stores UNI
der the name Maiden Modesty." 1t con-
tains nitrate of amyl, and if you get too
much of it, it is dangerous. But the least
sniff is harmless and produces most
RAvISHING BLUSH.
There is one girl i'll our set who can cry
when it will be effective, and two who can
paint. But, Oh whole, the secret of these
accomplishments is unknown to us. Don't
fancy from all this, that girls have monop-
| oily Oh self-creation. We have not, but
men have yet to attain the proficiency we
| possess. They are reSorting to lnartistic
| means that we have largely rel egated to
| servant girls. Afternoon teas have been in
great favor with us all winter. We num-
| Der enough elegant gentlemen of leisure
| among us to make the affair interesting.
You may not believe that anything wear
| ing pantaloonS would be such fool, but
upon my oath several Of the younger ones
| have put in appearance lately powdered
and rouged, and penciled. Disgusting, isn't
| it? Surely if pantaloons and other ancient,
| honorable institutions are to retain their
| glory untarnshed, women will have to take
| to them before long. Preparations are
| being made on grand scale for
| historical and military kettle-drum
| to be given in behalf of some convenient
! and worthy charity next week. Persons
prominent in American history. from Co.
| lumbus down to Carter Harrison, will be
| represented in appropriate dress. A live
| Italian has been secured to act as Columbus,
| and, what IS more to the point, the man
| looks enough like Columbus to ornament the
| fist page OF an account of the discovery of
| America. Invitations to be present have
been extended to President and Mrs. Cleve-
| land and it is rumored that they will appear.
| At recent meeting of the Woman's Pro-
| tective agency vote of thanks was tele-
| graphed to Mrs. Cleveland for having relig-
| iously dressed above the line of femininity
prescribed by Rose Elizabeth during the
winter, and it would seem that the least
Frank can do in return is to come to Chicago
| to tell the agency it is welcome. and at the
kettle-drum..determine forIthe ignorant ones
| just where
THE LINE SHOULD BE DRAWN.
1t has been commonly said of our society
of ladies the past season that when they
were seated in full dress at q table, you
| could not swear that they had anything on.
During the watering place season they sell
dom show any skirt worth mentioning, and
Mrs. Cleveland and everybody else should
leave no stone unturned to Keep the two
extremes from meeting. st. Paul and
Minneapolis have attained a financial stage
which warrants the assumption that lively
interest in all matters pertaining to art is
manfestedin both towns. The Decorative
Art society, established in Chicago some
eight years ago. must be of especial interest
to them since the society exists and operates
} not for Chicago alone. but for the entire
Northwest, there being no similar one east
: of Cincinnati. Societies of this sort have
, been IN operation in New York, Boston.
) Philadelphia and Cincinnati for some time,
and it is the object of the Chicago
association to create center fol
Western artists and buyers who have
heretofore gravitated towards the Eastern
cities 1t stimulates artistic genius to pro-
|, duction by receiving its products and offer
ing them for sale. and it attracts buyers by
the uniform excellence of all articles that i